Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…